Mail-bag hanger.



PATENTED APR. 25, 1905.

G. A. DEMARE ST.

MAIL BAG HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 14, 1904.

WITNESSES: mffm.

NITED STATES Patented April 25, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE ANDREW DEMAR'EST, OF BERVVIOK, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, OF ONE-HALF TO WALTER T. GILMORE, OF

BERWVIOK, LOUISIANA.

MAIL-BAG HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 788,501, dated April 25, 1905.

Application filed July 14, 1904. Serial No. 216,612.

To all whom it may concern:

This invention relates to new and useful impro'vements in mail-delivering apparatus; and it consists in various details of construction and arrangements of parts,.which will be hereinafter fully described and then specifically defined in the appended claim.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved mail-delivery apparatus, showing a mail-bag in readiness to be delivered. Fig. 2 is an edge view, parts being in section; and Fig. 3 is a view showing the pivotal standard positioned at right angles to the support therefor.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by numerals, 1 designates a support the upper end of which is bifurcated, forming arms 3, and 2 is the base of said support.

5 designates a pin carried in the upper ends of the arms 3 and upon which the bars 7 are pivotally mounted, which bars are provided with a weight 8, mounted at corresponding ends thereof.

4 designates a cross-piece upon the arms 3, designed for the purpose of limiting the throw in one direction of said bars 7. At the upper ends of the arms 3 and pivotally mounted upon the pins 12, carried by said bars, are the arms 16, and 22 designates a bracket fastened to said bars and to which corresponding ends of the arms are connected by means of springs 14:. The outer end of each arm is bifurcated at 13,.and 1O designates a disk mounted upon a pivotal pin held in the arms of the bifurcated end of each arm, and 11 designates a finger projecting from said disk and designed to engage a loop at the end of a mail-bag 17,

as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

stop to limit the downward movement of the pivotal bars 6, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawlngs.

Pivotally mounted upon a pin 20 is a lockingdevice consisting of a forked member having a handle 19 and straddling the support 1, and brackets 21 are fastened to the opposite sides of said support for the purpose of receiving the forked ends of said member 20, whereby the weighted bars may be held vertically.

By the provision of an apparatus embodying the features of my invention it will be observed that a mail-bag may be securely held in position to be delivered, and when released from the arms and when the locking device is released the counterbalanced portion of the bars will cause the latter to assume the position shown in Fig. 3 0f the drawings.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A mail-delivery apparatus comprising a standard with bifurcated end, pivotal bars mounted between the arms at the bifurcated end of said standard, a weight at the end of said bars, a forked locking member pivotally mounted upon and straddling said support, latches for holding said locking member, pivotal arms mounted between said bars, the ends of said arms being bifurcated, pivotal disks mounted horizontally in said bifurcated arms and provided with fingers designed to engage the loops of the mail-bag, a bracket secured to said bars, springs connecting the end of said bracket with the ends of said arms, a cross-piece projecting from said support and adapted to form a rest to limit the downward throw of said bars, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE ANDREW DEMAREST.

Witnesses:

ALPnoNsE J. OUNEo, O. A. DONNALLY. 

